Second Battalion
Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Pleads Not Guilty to War Crimes
Rade Macura, the wartime commander of the First Company with the Second Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army's First Gradiska Brigade, appeared before the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo as his trial opened on Monday and pleaded not guilty to war crimes against the civilian population.
Bosnian Prosecution Files Just Two War Indictments in Six Months
From January to the end of June this year, the Bosnian state prosecution has only charged two people with wartime crimes, BIRN has learned, despite a huge backlog of unprosecuted cases related to the 1992-95 conflict in the country.
Srebrenica Convictions: 700 Years of Jail Time, Five Life Sentences
The decision by the UN court in The Hague last month to uphold the life sentence handed down to former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic takes the number of life terms imposed for involvement in the Srebrenica genocide to five.
Bosnia Urged to Convict Serb Battalion Commander of Genocide
In its closing statement on Wednesday, the prosecution called on the state court in Sarajevo to convict Srecko Acimovic of genocide and give him a sentence as close to the maximum as possible.